HJ: The Law of Attraction is always in effect. The key is to begin working with it in a way that brings you more of what you want and less of what you dont want. The key to doing this is getting control of your thoughts and removing limting beliefs. These two factors influence your vibration and emotions, which are the what ultimately control what the law of attraction brings you. Your beliefs dictate your thoughts, which create your emotional patterns. If you try to change your thoughts without addressing your beliefs, the change will only be temporary and when you remove your mental vigilance, your thoughts will revert back to your original patterns based on your beliefs. Therefore in order to make lasting changes in your thought patterns, you must fundamentally alter your beliefs. This will in turn keep your thoughts in alignment with whatever you have chosen to believe, which for manifestation and spiritual purposes, should be something expansive, unlimited and abundance affirming. When you make these changes, then you simply need direct your thoughts towards the general things you wish to attract or create in your life and the universe will do the rest, bringing you a more perfect realization of them than you ever could have imagined yourself.

The article below by Abraham via Esther and Jerry Hicks will give you many further insights into how to make the law of attraction work for you.

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION always yields to you the essence of the balance of your thoughts. No exceptions. You get what you think about— whether you want it or not. And in time, with practice, you will come to remember that the Law of Attraction is always consistent.

It never tricks you. It never deceives you. It never confuses you, for the Law of Attraction responds precisely to the vibration that you are offering. But the confusion, for many, comes because they are offering vibrations that they do not realize they are offering. They know that they hold a desire in a specific direction, and they know that their desire has not yet come to them, but what they often do not realize is that they are offering the majority of their thoughts in opposition to their own desire.

Once you understand your own Emotional Guidance System, you will never again offer your vibrations in ignorance. And in time, you will achieve such keen awareness of your own valuable emotions that you will know, in every moment, if the thought that you are currently focusing on is taking you toward, or away from, something you desire. You will learn to literally feel your way to the things that you desire, on all subjects.

The basis of your world is one of Well-Being. You can allow it or not, but the basis is Well-Being. The Law of Attraction says: That which is like unto itself, is drawn. And so, the essence of whatever you give your attention to is unfolding in your experience. Therefore, there is nothing that you cannot be, do, or have. This is Law.

It is important that you know these things about the Law of Attraction:

You are a physical extension of Source Energy.

The physical world you live in provides a perfect environment in which to create.

The variety that exists helps you focus your own personal desires or preferences.

When a desire is focused within you, the summoning of Creative Life Force immediately begins to flow toward your desire—and the Universe expands. And that is good.

Your conscious realization of the Creative Process is not necessary in order for it to continue.

The Leading-Edge environment that you are physically focused in will continue to stimulate new desires in all who participate. Every desire or preference, no matter how large or small it may seem to you, is understood and answered by All-That-Is.

As every desire from every perceiver is answered, the Universe expands.

As the Universe expands, the variety expands.

As the variety expands, your experience expands.

As your experience expands, your desire expands.

As your desire expands, the answering of your desire expands.

And the Universe expands—and that is good. In fact, it is perfect.

You live in an eternally expanding environment, which constantly causes newly focused desires within you, which Source immediately and always answers.

With each receiving of that which you are asking for, you achieve a new vantage point from which you spontaneous ask again.

And so, the expansion of the Universe and your personal expansion will always be as follows:

— You live in an expanding Universe.

— You live in an expanding physical world.

— You are an expanding Being.

And all of this is, whether you consciously understand it or not.

— This Universe is eternally expanding, and so are you.

— And that is good.

We eagerly offer our perspective to you for one reason only: so that you mayconsciously participate in your own delicious expansion. Your expansion is a given; the expansion of your time-space reality is a given, and the expansion of this Universe is a given. It is just ever so much more satisfying for you to consciously and deliberately participate in your own expansion.

Esther Hicks is an inspirational speaker and author. She co-authored eight books with her husband, Jerry Hicks. Together, they have presented Law of Attraction workshops for Abraham-Hicks Publications in up to 60 cities per year since 1987. Visit: www.Abraham-Hicks.com.

I would put it more as changing limiting beliefs to expansive beliefs. It is a simple process really — you first identify what is holding you back — the limiting beliefs in question and then you decide what you would like to replace them with and do so through highly focused awareness and intention. There a few more guidelines than that, but too much to summarize here. I highly, highly suggest you get the book The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts/Seth as it contains everything you need to know in regards to this topic and your question specifically, including the exercises and guidelines mentioned above. It will transform your awareness and life beyond measure.

The problem is that it is incredibly difficult to attribute any major change to one’s life to this law’s theory and practice.
Karma or constant effort can just bring the same results without any sollicitation of the law of attraction.
In addition as the vast majority of people want more or less the same things it is a bit challenging to imagine such an expansion of the universe that will make it possible for all to get what they want to attract during their lifetime…

I would have to disagree… it is only when ones thoughts are unfocused and scattered that one has trouble seeing the effects of the law of attraction. When you bring your thoughts under control and are focused primarily on what you want to create (and not on what you don’t want to create), then it is pretty obvious to see the workings of this law.

I can clearly see the effects of this law in my life on a daily basis.

On your second point, we live in an unlimited, abundant universe which can accomodate every single manifestation imaginable 100 million times over, just to give an idea of whats possible. The reason most don’t get what they want is because they never do the inner work necessary to attain this level of awareness and possibility.

I say this with the utmost respect and in the hopes that you may use it for self reflection — your comments show that you are somewhat aware and awake, however, you have much work to do. 1) you still have doubt around the law of attraction which will cause you to experience difficulty around it, understanding it, using it and perceiving its effects in your life. 2) this also signals that you have doubt about yourself and your abilities as well 3) you need to expand your awareness beyond the limits imposed culturally or by the reigning ideas in society, for they are both fallacious and self-enforcing. If you believe the universe is limited, then for you, it is. However, the truth is that the universe is in unlimited and you can access this reality if you expand your awareness and belief to encompass it.

So many fail to realize that putting focus on things we don’t want to happen will actually cause them to happen. As you say, the Universe is abundant and waiting to give us what we want. It’s just so important to realize that we can attract the negative into our lives, just as we can the positive.

Something I dont understand about the law of attraction…what if you desire something that interferes with your life purpose? Will you inevitably have to make a choice between the 2? And what if another person is involved? How can you control an outcome where someone elses feelings are involved…
I feel that bad things just happen sometimes, but they teach us something and help us grow spiritually..its hard to accept that we bring these things onto ourselves…its difficult to comprehend LOA in congruence with the concept of following your life purpose..

What does science tell about the Law of Attraction? It tells that LoA doesn’t work. Do you need a proof by scientific evidence? Read this:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vanessa-van-edwards/law-of-attraction_b_2082921.htmlhttp://www.heatherkappes.com/?page_id=68
But if you are a hard die believer in LoA, affected by cognitive bias, then please refuse to believe in science. For instance refuse to believe that your personal computer was built by using science knowledge, refuse to believe in Newton gravity law, refuse to believe in scientific evidence in general. Program your brain with positive thinking like a robot. Don’t accept your feelings as they are. Don’t love yourself as you are. Throw your life experience and your own judgment into the trash. Never desire to save your emotions.
Cheers!

The Law of Attraction is an infinite spiritual technology that is available to everyone. It can be used by any person willing to learn about its characteristics and then follow a particular set of guidelines until the end result is accomplished. This is possible because the Law of Attraction is a reliable force that is set in motion through the power of human thoughts. We refer to this spiritual technology as a law because it is repeatable like the law of gravity, which is repeatable under specific conditions. According to the dictionary, a law is a statement or a fact in which a natural or scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present. The Law of Attraction, or Universal Law, is a spiritual certainty because it can be demonstrated over and over as long as certain mental and emotional conditions are met. – Eddie Coronado, “Manifest Your Millions: A Lottery Winner Shares his Law of Attraction Secrets.”